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Title

Perspectives in primate biology : the proceedings of a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 31 May and 1 June 1979 / edited by E.H. Ashton and R.L. Holmes.

Publication

London ; New York : Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press, 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Ashton, E. H.
• Holmes, R. L. (Robert Lewis)
• Zuckerman, Solly, Baron, 1904-1993.
• Zoological Society of London.

Description

xvii, 424 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

London Pubished for the Society by Academic Press 1981.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 46

Uniform Title

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 46.

Subject

• Primates > Congresses
• Primates
• Primates
• Primates (order)

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "This symposium was held to mark the 75th birthday of Professor Lord Zuckerman"--p. ii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Primate Growth. Chairman's remarks / W.A. Marshall ; Growth of creatures great and small / E.M. Widdowson ; Size and shape in relation to growth and form / M.J.R. Healy and J.M. Tanner ; Facial growth in primates with special reference to the Hominoidea / W.J. Moore -- Primate Evolution, Biometrical Morphology, Palaeontology. Chairman's remarks / A.J.E. Cave ; The Australopithecinae : their biometrical study / E.H. Ashton ; Beyond biometrics : studies of complex biological patterns / C.E. Oxnard and H.C.L. Yang ; Functional morphology of the joints of the evolving foot / O.J. Lewis ; Molecular evolution and vertebrate phylogeny in perspective / K.A. Joysey -- Reproductive Biology and Neuroendocrinology. Chairman's remarks / E.J.W. Barrington ; The pars intermedia of the mammalian pituitary gland : problems and some answers / R.L. Holmes ; Form, activity and function in insect neurosecretion / L.H. Finlayson ; Reproduction in the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas / Alan S. Parkes ; Sexual physiology of the brain / B.A. Cross -- Primate Sociology and Behaviour. Chairman's remarks / J. Herbert ; Field studies of primate behaviour / R.D. Martin ; Hormones and the sexual strategies of primates / J. Herbert ; Primate specialization in brain and intelligence / R.E. Passingham -- Closing address / R.J. Harrison -- Reply by Lord Zuckerman / Lord Zuckerman.

ISBN

• 0126133468
• 9780126133462

LCCN

81175619

OCLC

• ocm07680893
• 7680893
• SCSB-42780

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library